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WAS, WAST, WERE, WERT
Note:
When not part of another verb, or phrase, these translate
, “to be,” e.g.,
Matt. 1:18, or the following: (a)
, “to become,” e.g., Matt. 8:26; (b)
$
,
“to exist,” especially when referring to an already existing condition, e.g., Luke 8:41;
Acts 5:4 (2nd part); 16:3; 27:12; Rom. 4:19,
KJV
, “when he was” (
RV
, “he being”); (c)
, “to have,” e.g., Acts 12:15; (d)
, “to be away, to be distant,” e.g., Luke 7:6;
24:13; (e)
, “to be about to,” e.g., Luke 19:4; Acts 21:27, 37,
KJV
(
RV
, “was about
to”); (f)
$
, “to come to pass, happen,” e.g., Acts 21:35; (g) in Gal. 4:28, the
preposition
, “according to,” is rendered “was,” in the phrase “as Isaac was,” lit.,
“like Isaac”; as Isaac’s birth came by divine interposition, so does the spiritual birth of
every believer.
WASH
1.
(
&
, 3538) is chiefly used of “washing part of the body,” John 13:5-6, 8
(twice, figuratively in 2nd clause), 12, 14 (twice); in 1 Tim. 5:10, including the figurative
sense; in the middle voice, to wash oneself, Matt. 6:17; 15:2; Mark 7:3; John 9:7, 11, 15;
13:10.¶ For the corresponding noun see
BASON
.
2.
(
&
, 633), “to wash off,” is used in the middle voice, in Matt.
27:24.¶
3.
$
(
"
, 3068) signifies “to bathe, to wash the body,” (a) active voice, Acts
9:37; 16:33; (b) passive voice, John 13:10,
RV
, “bathed” (
KJV
, “washed”); Heb. 10:22,
lit., “having been washed as to the body,” metaphorical of the effect of the Word of God
upon the activities of the believer; (c) middle voice, 2 Pet. 2:22. Some inferior mss. have
it instead of
$
, “to loose,” in Rev. 1:5 (see
RV
).¶
4.
$
(
"
, 628), “to wash off or away,” is used in the middle voice,
metaphorically, “to wash oneself,” in Acts 22:16, where the command to Saul of Tarsus
to “wash away” his sins indicates that by his public confession, he would testify to the
removal of his sins, and to the complete change from his past life; this “washing away”
was not in itself the actual remission of his sins, which had taken place at his conversion;
the middle voice implies his own particular interest in the act (as with the preceding verb
“baptize,” lit., “baptize thyself,” i.e., “get thyself baptized”); the aorist tenses mark the
decisiveness of the acts; in 1 Cor. 6:11, lit., “ye washed yourselves clean”; here the
middle voice (rendered in the Passive in
KJV
and
RV
, which do not distinguish between
this and the next two passives; see
RV
marg.) again indicates that the converts at Corinth,
by their obedience to the faith, voluntarily gave testimony to the complete spiritual
change divinely wrought in them.¶ In the Sept., Job 9:30.¶
5.
$
(
"
, 4150) is used of “washing inanimate objects,” e.g., “nets,” Luke 5:2
(some texts have
$
); of “garments,” figuratively, Rev. 7:14; 22:14 (in the best
texts; the
KJV
translates those which have the verb
, “to do,” followed by
$ $
, “His commandments”).¶